#took

I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog! ↗

— Jane Siberry

#back #being #border #brought #challenge

Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place. ↗

— Ignazio Silone

#fascism #never #place #revolution #took

It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters. ↗

— Helen Slater

#acoustic #bit #could #courage #guess

In this film, we took a helicopter up and showed London as a vista, which is not very often done. ↗

— Mel Smith

#film #helicopter #london #often #showed

Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting. ↗

— Patti Smith

#drawings #getting #handwriting #i #into

It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could count the members of Congress on one hand that took these issues seriously. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#broad #congress #consensus #could #count

It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008. ↗

— Hope Solo

#day #every #every single day #foot #front

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#chinese #eight #far #home #i

Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another. ↗

— Soundarya

#college #dad #director #films #go

Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#close #door #drafts #either #ever